Internet Storm Center has an important reminder about things which claim to be electronic Christmas greeting cards, but are actually much more (or less, depending on how you look at it).  My advice: don't click them at all, and if you want to send one to your friends, do it by copying and pasting the link into a personal email.

I have a very small, simple WordPress installation with virtually no customisations, which is automatically backed up nightly (both files & mysql DB).  This is what i do to get it upgraded.  It's mostly here for my reference, but i figured others might find it helpful.

US-CERT is reporting yet another vulnerability in Flash, relating to privilege escalation. If you use Flash, best practice is to do it with a Firefox plugin like noscript, I for one am glad that Flash is not supported at all on 64-bit platforms. :-)

Visit this site to find out if yours is one of them!

In case somebody has actually noticed, i've removed all of the news feeds from this site.  They were mostly there to keep me informed about the things i'm interested in, and i've found a much better way: Mozilla Thunderbird.  I kept feeds on my site because i need to stay abreast of them for professional development reasons.  Thunderbird offers a way to do that without getting overwhelmed by the volume of data.

To use the feeds, simply create a new account of type "RSS N...